Cadillac CTS Vsport Proves its Mettle with a 8:14 at the Ring

It might be tempting to think of the new Cadillac CTS Vsport as something less than a real performance sedan, a tarted up CTS which isn’t really a match for the proper CTS-V. But consider this: the 3.6-liter twin-turbo in the Vsport sport produces 420 horsepower, and has just powered the car around the Nurburgring in 8:14.10. That’s 20 more horses and almost 6 seconds faster than the first-gen CTS-V, a car with a 5.7-liter V8 under the hood.

It is still slower than the current CTS-V, which just squeezed in under the 8-minute mark, but impressive nonetheless.